Top Ten Interesting Auction Items from 2006
Saturday, September 29th, 2007By Ralph & Terry Kovel 10. Last November, $47,777 (25,200) was paid for a teddy bear. Bonhams, a London auction house, sold the rare Steiff teddy bear designed by Richard Steiff in 1902 but made about 1925. The straw-filled white mohair bear, 25 inches tall with brown glass eyes, pointed snout, swivel head and humped back, even had a hole in one foot pad. The price works out to $1,896 (1,000) per inch. 9. A Rose Agate Holly spooner just 4 inches high, sold for $25,000. One of two known pieces in the experimental color, it was made by the Indiana tumbler and Goblet Works of Greentown, Indiana in 1903. 8. What do a fish and a Dickens character have in common with a record-priced collectible? They are all named Dolly Varden. Dolly, an exuberant character in the Dickens novel %u201CBarnaby Rudge, %u201D was known for her green with pink polka dots dress. A fish was named for her because of its light-colored “polka dots.” But we met Dolly as a record-priced white metal thimble that auctioned for $2,000 at the Thimble Collectors International convention. 7. The Marx Brothers most famous movie is probably Duck Soup, made in 1933. The half sheet poster for the movie with cartoon portraits of the four brothers sold in November at a Heritage Auction for $28,680. 6. Careful cleaning can reveal new treasures. A Virginia church bought an old building and while cleaning it found a cardboard sign dumped under a stairwell. The die-cut cardboard was an ad for Lucky Strike Cigarettes picturing 1928 baseball MVP winners Mickey Cochrane and Jim Bottomley as batter and catcher. It sold at a Julia%u2019s auction in Maine for $34,500. 5. A bride and groom PEZ dispenser sold in November for $2,000 on Ebay. 4. Buy the best and it will always be a good investment. Mary Merritt and her husband, Bob, had a doll and toy museum for many years and bought internationally for the collection. The museum’s prize dollhouse, a nineteenth-century Scottish building called Hope Villa, 55 inches wide by 37 inches tall, sold for an amazing $225,500 at a November Noel Barrett auction. 3. A light green Fiesta cream and sugar set brought only $7,700 at Strawser Auctions in Indiana. In 2003 the same set auctioned for $8,800. Fiesta rarities can bring amazing prices but sometimes they sneak into a sale of old baby clothes and used kitchen stuff at a house sale because ordinary Fiesta dishes in popular colors are inexpensive. 2. The oldest bottle of whiskey ever auctioned, sold at Bonhams in London for $49,204. It was Glenavon Whisky, a whiskey bottled by a company that was out of business in the 1850s. And the most interesting auction item of 2006… 1. Indians sparked a price battle at the October record-setting sale at Sothebys that included four Indian-shaped weather vanes from a single collection. The almost-unbelievable record price was $5.8 million, for a molded copper Indian chief weather vane attributed to J. L. Mott Iron works, c.1900. Kovels.com. Copyright 2007 Ralph and Terry Kovel. All rights reserved. Ralph and Terry Kovel are America’s foremost authorities in antiques and collectibles. Their love for antiques led to a newspaper column in The Cleveland Press. Then, their weekly column was syndicated nationally. It’s distributed today by King Features Syndicate. The column appears in more than 150 newspapers nationwide. In addition to writing their newspaper column and 95 books since 1974, the Kovels have published a subscription-only newsletter, Kovels on Antiques and Collectibles that has more than 100,000 subscribers. Recently the newsletter has gone digital and is available at Kovels.com. They have also written articles for Forbes, House Beautiful, Family Circle, Good Housekeeping, Town and Country, Giftware News, and a other publications. The Kovels have appeared on many television talk shows. Their first TV series, Know Your Antiques, appeared on public television stations in numerous cities. They also did Collector%u2019s Journal with Ralph and Terry Kovel for the Discovery Channel and the award-winning TV show, Flea Market Finds with the Kovels aired on HGTV. Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Ralph_|_Terry_Kovel http://EzineArticles.com/?Top-Ten-Interesting-Auction-Items-from-2006&id=425923 cheap tramadol free shipping buy ultram er generic ultram without a prescription cheap ultram online